Service Corp. blamed its poor earnings in part on a lower-than-expected death rate, for example (see box), although Stewart executives note that it's the number of deaths, not the rate, that drives funeral sales-and deaths in the U.S. were up 1% last year.

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The Schumer Box clearly tells you that the interest rate on purchases is 7%, variable (asterisk).

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Provident Financial Chief Executive Robin Ashton told Money Box that he was not in favour of a rate cap and rejected the claim that the 177 per cent APR his company charges is excessive or extortionate.

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Huawei has a long-running relationship with TalkTalk in the UK. The Ascend G 330 is the latest Huawei-branded product to be launched by TalkTalk, following on the heels of Huawei's Y 201 smartphone, which launched this week, and its innovative YouView set-top box, which TalkTalk is currently installing at a rate of more than 1, 000 per day.

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He writes songs at a remarkable rate, so instead of an album, he's put out a box set, complete with four CDs, a DVD, a wooden box and even a medallion.

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This particular box would be installed in a fighter jet, permitting the pilot to upload video at a rate of 2MB per second, presumably fed from another plane, satellite or nearby ground troops.

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